🌻The Bud's & The Bee's🐝

My husband and I are into gardening, building patio furniture, bee's and soon some chickens. Come along with us in our backyard adventures with natures finest.

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Peppers that will burn you ass. #jalapeno #vegetablegarden #diyvegetables #gardenlovers #bellpeppers #pnw #jalapenopopperz #nature #veggies #homegrown #frommygarden #food #healthyliving #pepper #peppers #garden_peppers #insta_gardens #instagood #gorgeous #view #nature_shooters #yum

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Backyard Beekeeping for Beginners

Backyard beekeeping can provide you with fresh honey and pollinated crops, use these tips to start your own hive.

By Samantha Johnson and Daniel Johnson

Photo by Daniel Johnson

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My vegetable pickings from last year. #gardening #pnw #gorgeous #photooftheday #instagood #beautiful #vegetablegarden #mygardentoday #backyard #gardenlovers #bellpeppers #nature #veggies #homegrown #frommygarden

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So many bees, ready to make some honey. #honeybees #beekeeping #beekeeper #beesofinstagram #pnwbees #pnwhoneybees #beeutiful #pnw #gorgeous #photooftheday #instagood #beeutifulbee #bees #honeymakers #honey #keepingthequeenwarm

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🌻Sunflowers are the best🌻 #sunflowersofinstagram #sunflowers #favoriteflower #pnw #gorgeous #photooftheday #instagood #beautiful #flowergarden #flowers #hugeflower #flowerporn #sunflowerseed #lovemyflowers #floweroftheday #instaflower #beautifulflowers #beautiful_flowers_for_all #insta_flower

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These are my favorite flowers! I can not wait to have more this summer! These pictures I took of my 2013 sunflowers.

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The good the bad and the ugly! I snapped this picture last year in our garden. It was not till today that I learned some tidbits on these guys. They are beautiful, no doubt about that. They as well can keep out those bad insects from our gardens, you know, the insects that like to eat on our plants? However, I learned that they eat the pretty little butterflies as well. Not only that but they don’t have a filter on what bugs they should and should not eat.They eat the bad but as well they eat the good bugs too. My husband and I are into beekeeping and have been learning about and trying to raise bees for the last 3 years. These beautiful dragonflies WILL eat these bees. This is good and bad. What I once thought was a gorgeous thing to have in my backyard, I know now may be beautiful and beneficial but dangerous as well to my garden and definitely bad for my bees. 

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Keeping honeybees healthy has become a challenge for beekeepers. And one main reason why is a threat that’s been wiping out bees since the late 1980s: the varroa mite.

“It’s a parasitic mite that feeds on the blood of adult bees and on the brood. It also transmits virus, and it suppresses the immune system of the bees,” explains Penn State honeybee expert Mary Ann Frazier.

It’s basically like having a six-pound house cat attached to your side, sucking the life out of you. These mites wiped out colonies across the world. And treatments were, and still are, pretty limited. In fact, the way most beekeepers treat bees for mites sounds a little crazy: They actually spray bees — which are, of course, insects — with low-dose insecticides. The hope is they’ll kill the mites, but not the bees.

A Hardier Honeybee That Fights Back By Biting Back

Photo: Lou Blouin for NPR

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Support your local bee keepers🐝🌸

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